Summary: Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAYSummary: A film about a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IROSummary: "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POLSummary: Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Juno 2008Summary: After the sudden death of her fianc,̌ Gray finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and Dennis' old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom Gray had previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fianc ěmerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD C&R ColumCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Catch 2007Summary: Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: When Margot and her son, Claude, come to attend the wedding of her sister, Pauline, it seems as if a family rift is being mended. Despite their best efforts, Margot and Pauline revert to their most dysfunctional selves. It does not help that Pauline's fianc ǐs woefully depressed. Margot's lover is as narcissistic as she is. Margot's estranged husband can't seem to recognize that Margot cringes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARSummary: Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY KUNSummary: Three young women Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DRESummary: Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HE'SCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When 19-year-old John Groberg is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he's getting into. Just getting to Tonga is fraught with danger and unbelievable obstacles. Once there, he finds himself in the midst of a culture as remote to him as the island is to his Idaho Falls home. Not understanding the language, and lonely for his fiancee Jean, John faces suspicion, distrust,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY OTHSummary: Ray is in a loveless marriage and hopes to escape the monotony when he begins a torrid affair with next-door neighbor Carla. Although she is married to a low-level mobster, she also seeks a little excitement. Ray's moral values are tested to the limit when Carla presents him with a bag of cash from one of her husband's latest crimes. What was to be an opportunity to take the money and run, soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SQUAniston, Jennifer
Summary: After surviving a car accident, Claire joins a chronic pain support group and befriends the husband of a woman who committed suicide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAKSmith, Maggie
Summary: A Scottish schoolmistress is a bad influence on her students.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAWSummary: A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROASummary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mona 2004Summary: Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father was having an affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPISummary: Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl, emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Owen, an alienated 12-year-old boy, recognizes a fellow outcast and opens up to her, forming a unique bond. But as a string of grisly murders occupy his town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LETSummary: A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jane 2008Summary: One of Jack London's best known tales, Call of the wild follows a young man's journey to the great Yukon gold rush and his unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck formed along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2012